"Good food and good eating are about risk."
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"Fat paunches have lean pates, and dainty bits Make rich the ribs, but backrout quite the wits."
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"Though their life was modest, they believed in eating well."
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"What say you to a piece of beef and mustard?"
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"They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives."
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"To avoid causing terror to living beings, let the disciple refrain from eating meat."
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"Cotton candy. Like eating a cloud of diabetes."
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"A human being is primarily a bag for putting food into."
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"Neither antiquity nor any other nation has imagined a more atrocious and blasphemous absurdity than that of eating God. This is how Christians treat the autocrat of the universe."
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"A lot of folks that ain't saying 'ain't,' ain't eating."
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"I have never developed indigestion from eating my words."
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"The same rightists who decades ago were shouting, 'Better dead than red!' are now often heard mumbling, 'Better red than eating hamburgers."
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"Te Occidere Possunt Sed Te Edere Non Possunt Nefas Est" ("They can kill you, but the legalities of eating you are quite a bit dicier")."
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"People are hungry because they're eating empty foods. Mine are full, and so am I."
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"The French say you get hungry when you’re eating, and I get inspired when I’m working. It’s my engine."
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"Eating is a natural way to feel happy. Overeating isn't."
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"Since visiting the abatoirs of S. France I have stopped eating meat."
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"will there ever be a drama more beautiful than that of eating?"
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"I remember the stink of the liverwurst. How I was put on a platter and laid between the mayonnaise and the bacon. The rhythm of the refrigerator had been disturbed."
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"Anger's my meat. I sup upon myself, And so shall starve with feeding."
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